Madame
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
120'
China
P&I Selection 2022
“At the end of May 2006, I got the news that my parents would close the restaurant that had been open for fourteen years in July. Because I felt sorry, I decided to make a film about it. The filming began after daily meals and slight inebriation … [as the atmosphere] became more and more screwed up.”
That is Qiu Jiongjiong’s assessment of his remarkable debut The Moon Palace: a portrait of his father and the restaurant he ran. In this experimental black-and-white documentary, vivid evocations of Sichuan opera (including one about the great inebriated Tang poet Li Bai) alternate with Qiu’s father’s elegies to wine and Qiu’s aunties’ reminiscences about politics, art, persecution, and movie stars. Simulated interviews pastiched with non-synchronous sound, a superb hybrid score, and a curious dancing chicken round out this set of documentary gestures that magically coalesce into a patriarchal portrait that’s rambunctious, probing, nostalgic, and critical.
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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
P&I Selection 2022
Programme IFFR 2022
Qiu Jiongjiong is one of China’s most innovative, critical, and entertaining artists/filmmakers, whose works joyously blur the boundaries between fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema. Intimate memory and national history resonate in Qiu’s baroque rhapsodies of music and design. We present seven of his films including his new masterwork A New Old Play.
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120'
China
P&I Selection 2022
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China
P&I Selection 2022
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China
P&I Selection 2022